ECAC Hockey Established 1961 Association NCAA Division Division I Members 12 Sports fielded men's: 12 teams women's: 12 teams Region Northeastern United States Former names Eastern College Athletic Conference (1962–2004) Headquarters Albany, New York Commissioner Steve Hagwell Website www.ecachockey.com Locations
Locations of current ECAC Hockey member institutions.
ECAC Hockey is one of the six conferences that compete in NCAA Division I ice hockey. The conference used to be affiliated with the Eastern College Athletic Conference, a consortium of over 300 colleges in the eastern United States. This relationship ended in 2004; however, the ECAC abbreviation was retained in the name of the hockey conference.[1] ECAC Hockey is the only ice hockey conference with identical memberships in both its women's and men's divisions.
Contents 1 History 2 Membership 2.1 Ivy League teams 2.2 Members 2.3 Membership timeline 3 Men's ECAC championship games 4 Women's ECAC championship games 5 Men's Conference Records 6 Conference arenas 7 Awards 7.1 All-Conference Teams 7.2 Individual Awards 8 NCAA Records 9 References 10 External links History ECAC Hockey was founded in 1961 as a loose association of college hockey teams in the Northeast.[2] In June 1983, concerns that the Ivy League schools were potentially leaving the conference and disagreements over schedule length versus academics caused Boston University, Boston College, Providence, Northeastern and New Hampshire to decide to leave the ECAC to form what would become Hockey East, which began play in the 1984–85 season.[1] By that fall, Maine also departed the ECAC for the new conference.[3] This left the ECAC with twelve teams (Army, Brown, Clarkson, Colgate, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, RPI, St. Lawrence, Vermont, and Yale). Army would stay in the conference until the end of the 1990–91 season, at which point they became independent (they now play in Atlantic Hockey) and were replaced by Union College. Vermont left the ECAC for Hockey East at the end of the 2004–05 season, and were replaced in the conference by Quinnipiac.[1]
The ECAC began sponsoring an invitational women's tournament in 1985. ECAC teams began playing an informal regular season schedule in the 1988–89 season, with the conference officially sponsoring women's hockey beginning in the 1993–94 season.[4] ECAC teams won two of the three pre-NCAA American Women's College Hockey Alliance national championships, New Hampshire winning in 1998 and Harvard in 1999.
The ECAC was the only Division I men's hockey conference that neither gained nor lost members during the major conference realignment in 2011 and 2012 that followed the Big Ten Conference's announcement that it would launch a men's hockey league in the 2013–14 season.
Membership There are 12 member schools in the ECAC. Since the 2006–07 season, all schools have participated with men's and women's teams, making ECAC Hockey the only Division I hockey conference with a full complement of teams for both sexes.[1]
Ivy League teams The six Ivy League universities with Division I ice hockey programs are all members of ECAC Hockey. Neither the University of Pennsylvania nor Columbia University has a varsity intercollegiate ice hockey program. Penn supported an intercollegiate varsity hockey program in the past and was an ECAC Hockey member from 1966 to 1978 before the team was disbanded. The Ivy school that has the best record against other Ivy opponents in regular season ECAC games is crowned the Ivy League ice hockey champion. The Ivy League schools require their teams to play seasons that are about three weeks shorter than those of the other schools in the league.[5] Thus, they enter the league schedule with fewer non-conference warm-up games. Harvard competes in the annual Beanpot Tournament.
Members Institution Location Nickname Founded Historical Affiliation Enrollment Primary Conference Colors 1764 [6] 9,380[7] 1896 Private/Non-sectarian 4,300[8] 1819 Private/Baptists[9] 2,982[10] 1865 Private/Non-sectarian 23,600[11] 1769 Private/Congregationalist 5,753[12] 1636 Private/Unitarian 20,042[13] 1746 Nonsectarian, but founded by Presbyterians[14] 6,677[15] 1929 Private/Non-sectarian 10,290[16] 1824 Private/Non-sectarian 7,633[17] 1856 Non-denominational, founded by Universalist Church of America 2,487[18] 1795 Private/Non-sectarian 2,200[19] 1701 Private/Congregationalist 12,458[20]
Membership timeline Men Women Both
Men's ECAC championship games [21] [22]
A men's game between Dartmouth and Princeton at Thompson Arena in Hanover
The ECAC Championship Game has been held at the following sites:
1962–1966 — Boston Arena (now Matthews Arena), Boston 1966–1992 — Boston Garden, Boston 1993–2002 — Olympic Center (now Herb Brooks Arena), Lake Placid, New York 2003–2010 — Times Union Center (Pepsi Arena through 2006), Albany, New York 2011–2013 — Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey 2014–2019 — Herb Brooks Arena, Lake Placid, New York The winner of the game is awarded the Whitelaw Cup and receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Men's Division I Hockey Tournament.
1962 St. Lawrence def. Clarkson 5–2 1963 Harvard def. Boston College 4–3 (ot) 1964 Providence def. St. Lawrence 3–1 1965 Boston College def. Brown 6–2 1966 Clarkson def. Cornell 6–2 1967 Cornell def. Boston University 4–3 1968 Cornell def. Boston College 6–3 1969 Cornell def. Harvard 4–2 1970 Cornell def. Clarkson 3–2 1971 Harvard def. Clarkson 7–4 1972 Boston University def. Cornell 4–1 1973 Cornell def. Boston College 3–2 1974 Boston University def. Harvard 4–2 1975 Boston University def. Harvard 7–3 1976 Boston University def. Brown 9–2 1977 Boston University def. New Hampshire 8–6 1978 Boston College def. Providence 4–2 1979 New Hampshire def. Dartmouth 3–2 1980 Cornell def. Dartmouth 5–1 1981 Providence def. Cornell 8–4 1982 Northeastern def. Harvard 5–2 1983 Harvard def. Providence 4–1 1984 Rensselaer def. Boston University 5–2 1985 Rensselaer def. Harvard 3–1 1986 Cornell def. Clarkson 3–2 (ot) 1987 Harvard def. St. Lawrence 6–3 1988 St. Lawrence def. Clarkson 3–0 1989 St. Lawrence def. Vermont 4–1 1990 Colgate def. Rensselaer 5–4 1991 Clarkson def. St. Lawrence 5–4 1992 St. Lawrence def. Cornell 4–2 1993 Clarkson def. Brown 3–1 1994 Harvard def. Rensselaer 3–0 1995 Rensselaer def. Princeton 5–1 1996 Cornell def. Harvard 2–1 1997 Cornell def. Clarkson 2–1 1998 Princeton def. Clarkson 5–4 (2ot) 1999 Clarkson def. St. Lawrence 3–2 2000 St. Lawrence def. Rensselaer 2–0 2001 St. Lawrence def. Cornell 3–1 2002 Harvard def. Cornell 4–3 (2ot) 2003 Cornell def. Harvard 3–2 (ot) 2004 Harvard def. Clarkson 4–2 2005 Cornell def. Harvard 3–1 2006 Harvard def. Cornell 6–2 2007 Clarkson def. Quinnipiac 4–2 2008 Princeton def. Harvard 4–1 2009 Yale def. Cornell 5–0 Cornell def. Union 3–0Yale def. Cornell 6–0Union def. Harvard 3–1Union def. Brown 3–1Union def. Colgate 4–2Harvard def. Colgate 4–2Quinnipiac def. Harvard 4–1Harvard def. Cornell 4–1Princeton def Clarkson 2–1Clarkson def Cornell 3–2 (ot)Cleary Cup The Cleary Cup, named for former Harvard player and coach Bill Cleary, is awarded to the team with the best record in league games at the end of the regular–season. There is no tie–breaking procedure should two or more teams end the season with the same record and the trophy is shared. A tie breaking procedure is applied to determine the top seed in the ECAC conference tournament. The Cleary Cup winner is not given any special consideration in the NCAA tournament as the ECAC awards its automatic bid to the winner of the ECAC tournament.
1984–85 Rensselaer 1985–86 Harvard 1986–87 Harvard 1987–88 Harvard and St. Lawrence 1988–89 Harvard 1989–90 Colgate 1990–91 Clarkson 1991–92 Harvard 1992–93 Harvard 1993–94 Harvard 1994–95 Clarkson 1995–96 Vermont 1996–97 Clarkson 1997–98 Yale 1998–99 Clarkson 1999–00 St. Lawrence 2000–01 Clarkson 2001–02 Cornell 2002–03 Cornell 2003–04 Colgate 2004–05 Cornell 2005–06 Colgate and Dartmouth 2006–07 St. Lawrence 2007–08 Clarkson 2008–09 Yale 2009–10 Yale 2010–11 Union 2011–12 Union 2012–13 Quinnipiac 2013–14 Union 2014–15 Quinnipiac 2015–16 Quinnipiac 2016–17 Harvard and Union 2017–18 Cornell 2018–19 Cornell and Quinnipiac Women's ECAC championship games [23]
1985 Providence def. New Hampshire 1986 New Hampshire def. Northeastern 1987 New Hampshire def. Northeastern 1988 Northeastern def. Providence 1989 Northeastern def. Providence 1990 New Hampshire def. Providence (in Durham, New Hampshire) 1991 New Hampshire def. Northeastern (Durham) 1992 Providence def. New Hampshire (in Providence, Rhode Island) 1993 Providence def. New Hampshire (in Boston) 1994 Providence def. Northeastern (Providence) 1995 Providence def. New Hampshire (Providence) 1996 New Hampshire def. Providence (Durham) 1997 Northeastern def. New Hampshire (Boston) 1998 Brown def. New Hampshire (Boston) 1999 Harvard def. New Hampshire (Providence) 2000 Brown def. Dartmouth (Providence) 2001 Dartmouth def. Harvard (in Hanover, New Hampshire) 2002 Brown def. Dartmouth (Hanover) 2003 Dartmouth def. Harvard (Providence) 2004 Harvard def. St. Lawrence (in Schenectady, New York) 2005 Harvard def. Dartmouth (Schenectady) 2006 Harvard def. Brown (in Canton, New York) 2007 Dartmouth def. St. Lawrence (Hanover) 2008 Harvard def. St. Lawrence (Boston) 2009 Dartmouth def. Rensselaer (Boston) 2010 Cornell def. Clarkson (in Ithaca, New York) 2011 Cornell def. Dartmouth (Ithaca) 2012 St. Lawrence def. Cornell (Ithaca) 2013 Cornell def. Harvard (Ithaca) 2014 Cornell def. Clarkson (in Potsdam, New York) 2015 Harvard def. Cornell (Potsdam) 2016 Quinnipiac def. Clarkson (Hamden, Connecticut) 2017 Clarkson def. Cornell (Potsdam) 2018 Clarkson def. Colgate (Potsdam) 2019 Clarkson def. Cornell (Ithaca) Men's Conference Records Team's records against current conference opponents. (As of the end of the 2017-18 season.)
School Brown Clarkson Colgate Cornell Dartmouth Harvard Princeton Quinnipiac Rensselaer St. Lawrence Union Yale Total W L T W L T W L T W L T W L T W L T W L T W L T W L T W L T W L T W L T W L T Win% Brown 19 66 9 25 58 6 43 78 7 67 83 8 47 114 13 87 71 12 7 23 6 28 63 9 29 48 12 23 23 13 77 100 8 452 727 103 .393 Clarkson 66 19 9 86 53 18 55 66 17 72 30 7 55 57 12 83 34 6 11 15 3 95 51 11 125 71 11 32 26 5 74 39 8 754 461 107 .611 Colgate 58 25 6 53 86 18 57 83 15 51 50 6 25 54 8 57 48 8 15 21 2 62 64 5 71 79 5 43 26 4 51 49 6 543 585 83 .483 Cornell 78 43 7 66 55 17 83 57 15 82 48 6 76 65 11 89 53 8 22 16 3 63 37 10 62 45 8 39 21 9 84 60 8 744 500 102 .591 Dartmouth 83 67 8 30 72 7 51 50 6 48 82 6 66 136 13 103 88 16 9 20 2 41 46 5 39 60 3 26 29 7 96 112 15 592 762 88 .441 Harvard 114 47 13 57 55 12 54 25 8 65 76 11 136 66 13 157 58 11 14 13 5 56 37 8 60 44 7 33 16 6 143 91 21 889 528 115 .618 Princeton 71 87 11 34 83 6 48 57 8 53 89 8 88 103 16 57 158 11 12 15 1 36 68 11 24 69 11 24 35 7 107 141 11 554 905 101 .388 Quinnipiac 23 7 6 15 11 3 21 15 2 16 22 3 20 9 2 13 14 15 15 12 1 15 7 9 13 15 4 18 16 4 20 7 5 189 135 54 .571 Rensselaer 63 28 9 51 95 11 64 62 5 37 63 10 46 41 5 37 56 8 68 36 11 7 15 9 58 83 7 51 40 10 57 48 6 539 567 91 .488 St. Lawrence 48 29 12 71 125 11 79 71 5 45 62 17 60 39 3 44 60 7 69 24 11 15 13 4 83 58 7 38 27 3 64 39 11 616 547 91 .528 Union 23 23 13 26 32 5 26 43 4 21 39 9 29 26 7 16 33 6 35 24 7 16 18 4 40 51 10 27 38 3 26 26 4 285 353 72 .452 Yale 100 77 8 39 74 8 49 51 6 60 84 8 112 96 15 91 143 21 141 107 11 7 20 5 48 57 6 39 64 11 26 26 4 712 799 103 .473
Harvard and Princeton both record a loss on January 4, 1941. The game was played in Princeton with the score either 5–3 Harvard or 6–2 Princeton.[24] [25] Conference arenas
A Men's game between Dartmouth and Quinnipiac at the TD Bank Sports Center
School Hockey arena (built) Capacity Brown 3,100 Clarkson 3,000 Colgate 2,222 Cornell 4,267 Dartmouth 4,500 Harvard 3,095 Princeton 2,092 Quinnipiac 3,386 Rensselaer 4,780 St. Lawrence 2,300 Union 2,225 Yale 3,500
Awards At the conclusion of each regular season schedule the coaches of each ECAC team vote which players they choose to be on the two to four All-Conference Teams:[26] first team and second team (rookie team starting in 1987–88 and third team beginning in 2005–06). Additionally they vote to award up to 7 individual trophies to an eligible player at the same time. ECAC Hockey also awards a Conference Tournament Most Outstanding Player as well as an All-Tournament Team, which are voted on at the conclusion of the conference tournament. Three awards have been bestowed every year that ECAC has been in operation while the 'Best Defensive Defenseman' was retired from 1967–68 thru 1991–92[27] [28]
All-Conference Teams Award Inaugural Year
Individual Awards Award Inaugural Year
NCAA Records In 2000, St. Lawrence University won the longest game in NCAA tournament history. St. Lawrence defeated Boston University in quadruple overtime by a score of 3–2. Currently, this game is the fourth longest game in NCAA division I history.[29] On March 4, 2006, Union College played host to the longest NCAA men's ice hockey game in NCAA history. In Game 2 of the first round of the 2006 ECACHL Tournament (best of three series) between Yale University and Union, Yale won 3–2 1:35 into the 5th overtime. Overall, the game took 141:35 to decide the winner.[30] On March 11, 2010, Quinnipiac defeated Union College 3–2. The game, which lasted 150 minutes and 22 seconds, set a new record for the longest hockey game in NCAA history.[31] The record lasted until March 6, 2015 when a Hockey East playoff game between UMass and Notre Dame lasted just over a minute longer.[32] Cornell University recorded the only undefeated and untied season in NCAA Division I men's hockey history in 1970.[33] References ^ a b c d "timeline of ECACH history, ECACHockey.com" (PDF) . ecachockey.com . .mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em^ "History of ECAC Hockey". 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NCAA Division I hockey conferences
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